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The Indiana Department of Health reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday. This is the first time the state has surpassed 1,000 new cases in a day since May 14.
June’s daily cases reached a pandemic-low average – just 284 cases per day. But cases have begun to climb again. In three weeks of July, the state has averaged about 485 cases per day.
And IDOH reports the vast majority of sampled cases are the more infectious delta variant – accounting for more than 85 percent of new cases. The strain has caused surges in cases across the country and world.